Having experienced many trips/experiences on boar...

Having experienced many trips/experiences on board the tall ship cruises, including the vivid festival in 2014 and 2015, my husband and i were looking forward to sharing this great experience again this year with family and friends but we were sorely disappointed. The whole dynamic had changed and definitely not in a postive way. The staff, previously so engaging, were disorganised and not interested or interesting; the food was poorly organised and took way too long to serve, the previous bbq style buffet above deck was certainly preferable to the new ststem of taking people below deck in groups of 10, which would have been okay if the people who had already eaten were then directed to other areas instead of them queueing to take more food ahead of passengers who had not yet eaten. Finally the live music on previous cruises was so much more atmospheric and sadly missed on this cruise. It would be safe to say that I will not be rushing to book on another tall ship cruise.